Calvatia cyathiformis
Kuma Nature Reserve
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| Calvatia cyathiformis | Heino1 | 26 Feb 2024 | |
| Unverified | mahargiani | 23 Feb 2024 |
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User's notes
Single dried-out specimen. From top appeared to be a flat mushroom very close to the ground. No stem, in area where unlikely to be wood beneath the ground (very rocky). Underside seemed smoth, but this could be result of drying out.
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26 Feb 2024
This is all that's left of this powdery spored species once the spores have been dispersed. Earlier it would have been more-or-less spherical, with a thin skin surrounding a mass of powdery spores within a cotton-wool-like mass of fibres. the skin breaks away to expose the spores, thereby allowing breezes to carry them away. The whole spore mass is supported on a sterile and slightly spongy base, shaped a bit like an upside-down cone - and that base is what you see here.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.165142-36.265232
- Altitude 916.8m
- Maps Kuma Nature Reserve
- Places Cooma, NSW
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 23 Feb 2024 02:24 PM Recorded on
- mahargiani Recorded by
Collections
- mahargiani Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Calvatia cyathiformis Fruitbody walls break away to expose the spores Puffballs & the like Fungi
Species information
- Calvatia cyathiformis Scientific name
- Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Cosmopolitan
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 916.77m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Calvatia cyathiformis
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